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Well, it's fairly obvious, isn't it? It was put quite well in the post I quoted from Internet Stranger. Science generally is concerned with the domain...
July 10, 2018 at 06:03
Well, perhaps in the original. But it has become part of the rubric of atheism as a kind of symbol for something that might exist, but for which there...
July 10, 2018 at 05:51
That's the issue as I see it, in a nutshell. That's why, unlike @Janus, I think that Hume's 'is/ought' distinction is of great significance in ethics....
July 10, 2018 at 03:53
Fear of uncertainty, I would bet.
July 10, 2018 at 01:51
I am a moral realist by temperament, but I think you will find - actually, you are finding - that it becomes problematical as soon as the word 'object...
July 10, 2018 at 01:50
That's not something I would care to try and explain, or to expound on, but that is the classical understanding nonetheless. The problem is that we're...
July 09, 2018 at 23:39
Nirv??a is not non-existence, but the extinction of ego. The meaning is very similar to the Biblical injunction 'He who looses his life for My sake wi...
July 09, 2018 at 21:48
According to classical theology, God is not complex. I know that seems counter-intuitive, but it's part of the specification. Strictly speaking, never...
July 09, 2018 at 21:17
Yes indeed, and a good thing too. You might find this review of interest.
July 09, 2018 at 06:01
I'm really not. When I said 'with all due respect', I meant it. And I still think you're not seeing the point. You're re-interpreting the whole questi...
July 09, 2018 at 04:20
You've attributed something I (Wayfarer) said, to Apokrisis - or that is how it comes across.
July 09, 2018 at 03:50
It is 'given' only in respect of those aspects of reality which are amenable to quantitative measurement; which is a key point. For Galileo, and those...
July 09, 2018 at 03:33
It's vague because it's assumed. It is the attitude distinctively characteristic of the advent of the modern period and the rejection of scholastic an...
July 09, 2018 at 01:15
Interesting perspective, thanks. Some rather strange turns of phrase: But I nevertheless think I understand what you're driving at. Right - I think I ...
July 08, 2018 at 22:43
Mainly, I presume, on the part of myself. That is a point I have often argued on forums, usually to complete incomprehension. In fact, my first post o...
July 08, 2018 at 21:19
It’s not something that Dawkins has forgotten - it’s something that he has never known. Like most people nowadays, he has no understanding of the clas...
July 08, 2018 at 20:48
No, it’s a symptom of where the world is at right now. ‘Things fall apart, the centre cannot hold’. The disintegration of shared meanings. Not really ...
July 08, 2018 at 11:22
I think ‘a domain of discourse’ is a better expression than ‘language game’. Words are used in domains of discourse in which they have shared meaning/...
July 08, 2018 at 09:51
Falsifiability is the criterion used to show that a theory is NOT metaphysics.
July 08, 2018 at 07:31
Interesting wiki article, thanks :up:
July 08, 2018 at 00:10
Actually I will add one point. For someone whose spirituality was never built around the literal truth of biblical creationism, the fact that it's not...
July 07, 2018 at 22:57
Find Peter Kreeft - he has a website which includes which dialogues to read and in what order. He also has a series of 4 lectures on Youtube on Plato.
July 07, 2018 at 04:53
He's not kidding - he's giving you the definition. That’s not quite the point, though. I think the ‘unitive vision’ of the ‘cosmos as an ordered whole...
July 07, 2018 at 00:48
In numbers, I presume. Or does yours use some other method.
July 06, 2018 at 23:11
So - what does your speedometer display?
July 06, 2018 at 22:30
That's what 'non-attachment' is for - detach from what is unwholesome or deleterious so as to unite with what is in your ultimate best interest 'where...
July 06, 2018 at 22:28
The origin of Western metaphysics is the Parmenides. And the point of the Parmenides is that the domain of sensory perception, our everyday experience...
July 06, 2018 at 22:03
Galileo ‘The book of nature is written in mathematics’ The meaning is crystal clear and fundamental to the modern scientific conception of nature. Fur...
July 06, 2018 at 21:50
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You can’t explain mathematics. Mathematics is what explains.
July 06, 2018 at 07:32
I think you'll find Dukkha has moved on. Thoughtful post, though. You will enjoy this movie trailer, Dreyfus is in it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v...
July 06, 2018 at 05:25
'Modelling the world' is your main concern, is it not? Your 'meta-philosophical project'? But does quantum physics have an intelligible form? It makes...
July 06, 2018 at 04:37
Well, I disagree with that on so many levels that it's pointless to continue. But thanks for taking the time to reply.
July 06, 2018 at 01:35
That quote I gave is well-known and verbatim. But, very interesting post, and I thank you for it, although there are points I would take issue with, t...
July 06, 2018 at 00:41
'Non-attachment' is also a basic theme of the New Testament: 'For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: and whosoever will lose his life for my ...
July 05, 2018 at 21:41
I think I see the point - but not persuaded by it. But on the other hand, right now debate is raging in physics about the so-called multiverse - the d...
July 05, 2018 at 07:11
Whether there is or is not an alien civilization is not metaphysical question.
July 05, 2018 at 06:51
There is a lot of truth in that. A large part of the issue is that the tropes and imagery of the Bible hark back to an early agrarian, pre-industrial ...
July 05, 2018 at 01:52
But that is, I'm afraid, common or garden-variety materialism; in other words, only materialism accepts that. The basic problem here is indeed one of ...
July 05, 2018 at 01:34
:up:
July 05, 2018 at 01:13
The problem is that Carnap, and positivism generally, both tend towards 'scientism'. Even sophisticated neuroscientists who write on philosophy often ...
July 05, 2018 at 00:48
That is the point I would like to address. In Christianity, the emphasis is on forming a personal relationship with Jesus Christ. You feel this as a l...
July 05, 2018 at 00:38
Yeah there's nothing like silent meditation for hours on end to avoid looking at your own face. There's some truth in what Agustino is saying, because...
July 05, 2018 at 00:05
Are you a physical being, book-ended by birth and death - or something other than that? It might turn out to be important. That is why one of the infl...
July 05, 2018 at 00:02
Well, you did say that thoughts, language and reason 'exist in an ontological sense' as brain processes. But now you say that 'all we can do is experi...
July 04, 2018 at 21:34
Nihilism is a caricature of Buddhism which sadly some Buddhists unwittingly fall into. But nihilism is explicitly called out as an incorrect view from...
July 04, 2018 at 21:12
Islamic, Christian, and Hindu philosophers or teachers, might profoundly disagree about many points of doctrine, even on what is the 'nature of the di...
July 04, 2018 at 11:16
Since ancient times, there have always been atheist and materialist philosophers. However I think it’s fair to say that they didn’t comprise the mains...
July 04, 2018 at 10:16
By conducting experiments, for example, by rolling two spherical weights of different mass down an incline to see whether the heavier one accelerates ...
July 04, 2018 at 10:14
The point I was trying to make, was that the word ‘metaphysics’ was coined in relation to Aristotle’s work in particular - and this is an historical f...
July 04, 2018 at 09:58
The belief that the Universe is essentially mindless or lifeless matter~energy is profoundly different from both Christian and Islamic beliefs. Even t...
July 04, 2018 at 09:42